When do you write off a partner who’s a mess?He says he wants to be with you and change, but the real question is, what has he done to better himself? If he’s truly serious about being his best self, he will proactively — and without prompting from you — detach from his toxic friends and get serious about his emotional health. He is clearly hurting and feels like being with you will solve all his problems, but it won’t. His problems will be right there where he left them. It’s wonderful that he is seeing a therapist but he needs to take consistent action to prove that he is truly changing his ways. Without that, his words are simply well-intentioned nonsense.

This beauty and fashion interview made my laugh.“We also were inspired by Born to Run, which we would read out loud to each other in our tent. The book was about the Tarahumara people in Mexico, who would eat chia seeds before they went on these really long barefoot runs. So, every morning, we would take a cup of water, add the seeds and a little bit of lime juice, mix it with our fingers and chug. We were like, ‘This is the path! We’re going to be so healthy and so beautiful!’”

Wow. Have you read about the big study that came out re: brain damage and the NFL? Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel surprisingly retired from the NFL on Thursday at the age of 26 after he read the study. He’s going to pursue is PhD at M.I.T. Good for him!

Co-signed! Start right now, ready or not. When we delay taking an action we’ve identified for ourselves, it feels like we’re keeping ourselves safe. Our dreams get to stay clean and protected, safe in the possibility of ‘someday’ instead of the messy, gritty reality of ‘now’. But the problem is that clean and protected dreams only ever stay as that – dreams, not realities, not evolved into life-changes and adventures and steep learning curves. They’re like axolotls, kept in the dark and never allowed to mature and venture onto land.

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I actually learned that the IKEA catalogue was different depending on the country just a while ago! It surprised me too, but it makes a lot of sense. Would be fun to collect the different versions and compare them, haha!

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